Skip-a-dee-doo-dah

I’d actually forgotten that after my last long run, my leg was hurting badly and I was limping for a few days after. Along with my cold came a bad back that lasted for a week and I didn’t even notice that my leg had got better until fellow running bloggers fairweatherrunner and thereisasixpackunderhere reminded me today by saying on Twitter that their injuries seemed to be better now.

After yesterday’s successful trip to the gym, I thought it was probably time I got back out for a run. Just three miles to see how I got on and to make sure my leg didn’t fall off, a la Travelling Hopefully’s barometer of a successful run.

The first mile was done in 10 minutes and 25 seconds and I thought whoop whoop, go me, but the next mile was quite slow but I was still finding it quite easy but then Kate Nash came on my iPod and put me off my stride and I stopped to skip her as although I used to like her, now I just think she’s an annoying little girl and after I’d skipped her, the next few seconds were spent with me standing in a field skipping songs until I found one that met with my approval for continuing with this morning’s run.

Matt Stevens… skip…

The Shins… skip…

Jesus and Mary Chain… skip…

Cardiacs… skip…

The Wombats… skip…

Sleeper… Ah! Yes! Sleeper! 90s indie Britpop at its finest! You can’t go wrong with a bit of 90s indie Britpop (unless it’s Menswear) and so I carried on with my run and wondering if maybe I should get some headphones with some kind of controllable doo-dah on them so I don’t have to keep stopping while I’m skipping and I think my iPod came with some controllable headphones but I’m not wearing the shitty crappy headphones that Apple make and Steve Jobs should be out of a job for selling something so shit and then I remember that Steve Jobs doesn’t actually have a job anymore and I get further down the field and there’s a slug on the path and I’m worried that the slug will get squished and I want to move him onto the grass but I can’t remember if slugs burn if a human touches them or is that only caterpillars? and maybe slugs only burn when humans put salt on them and so I leave the slug on the pavement and think sorry slug, I’ll just have to leave you with the lesson that life isn’t fair and it’s a dog eat dog or, at the very least, a human squish slug kind of world and I get home after doing three miles which makes me think maybe I can do tomorrow’s 5k race after all.